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Herman Melville
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English
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Despite the early success of his tales of adventure in the South Seas, Herman Melville (1819–1891) suffered a reversal of fortunes with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The great epic, now recognized as a masterpiece, was scorned by an uncomprehending nineteenth-century audience. Melville's preoccupation with metaphysical and philosophical issues and his use of symbols and archetypes foreshadowed elements of latter-day literature, and modern readers...
2) Typee
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English
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Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material...
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English
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If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener,"...
4) Billy Budd
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English
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The classic story in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.
10) Moby-Dick
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
12) Mighty Moby
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A bedtime story of a whale hunt inspired by the classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, here with a new twist. Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When Captain Alexandra and her crew attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself.
14) Moby Dick
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Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Ishmael was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas, so he joined the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.
16) Moby Dick
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Artisan Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life--revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
17) Moby Dick
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
19) Redburn, his first voyage: White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
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English